Detailed record for Royal 6 E V

Author

Robert Grosseteste

Title

Dicta CXLVII and other works

Origin

England, S. E. (Merton?)

Date

Last quarter of the 14th century

Language

Latin

Script

Gothic

Decoration

1 historiated initial in colours and gold of Robert Grosseteste, with a full border (f. 6). 6 foliate initials in colours and gold, with full or partial borders (ff. 70, 136, 185, 211, 228, 240). Initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white, some with foliate extensions (e.g., f. 97). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Cadels.

Dimensions in mm

420 x 290 (325 x 200)

Official foliation

ff. 252 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, and 4 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end; f. 252 is a medieval parchment flyleaf)

Form

Parchment codex

Binding

BM/BL in-house

Provenance

The Augustinian priory of St. Mary, Merton, Surrey: inscribed 'Liber ecclesie s[anc]te Marie de M[er]ton', 15th century (f. 1); and a draft acquittance by the prior of S. Mary's, Merton to the warden and fellows of New College, Oxford, founded in 1379, for 16s. 6d. rent of Mowreshall in Oxford, 15th century (f. 252v).Added tables of contents, 15th century (ff. 1-4v).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1239' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8134) .Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.